By Rochelle C. Jaffe
Rochelle Jaffe is a certified architect and a certified structural engineer. She can be qualified as a building specifier (by the development Specification Institute) and as a unique inspector of structural masonry (by the foreign convention of creating Officials). As a Senior venture advisor with NTH specialists, Ltd., in Farmington Hills, Michigan, Ms. Jaffe focuses on research, evaluate, and rehabilitation of present, deteriorated, and broken masonry constructions, and has over twenty years' event during this field.Ms. Jaffe is a member of the yank Concrete Institute (ACI) and the yank Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). As an lively member of The Masonry Society (TMS), she is a former member of the Board of administrators and a former editor of the magazine, serves at the layout Practices Committee, and is present chairperson of the Architectural Practices Committee. Her energetic participation within the ACI/ASCE/TMS Masonry criteria Joint Committee, the crowd that authors the development Code requisites for Masonry constructions (ACI 530/ASCE 5/TMS 402) and the Specification for Masonry buildings (ACI 530.1/ASCE 6/TMS 602), comprises serving as a former chair of the Stone Cladding Subcommittee.Ms. Jaffe has authored or co-authored journal articles and texts, in addition to a variety of technical stories on the topic of investigations of masonry buildings with fabric and architectural or structural deficiencies. She has spoken at quite a few seminars and different technical capabilities.
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Org). be representative of the extent of bond for the purposes of water permeance evaluation. Other cementitious materials that may be used in mortar and grout are limes. Two ASTM standards govern the types of limes that may be used. ” Lime is used in combination with portland cement (ASTM C 150), blended hydraulic cement (ASTM C 595), or hydraulic cement (ASTM C 1157) but not with masonry cement (ASTM C 91) or mortar cement (ASTM C 1329). Although hydrated lime can be combined directly with the other mortar ingredients, quicklime must first be slaked and aged.
Org). 13 ASTM C 1272 Heavy Vehicular Paving Brick Types and Applications Designation Definition Type R intended to be set in a mortar setting bed supported by an adequate concrete base; or an asphalt setting bed supported by an adequate asphalt or concrete base Type F intended to be set in a sand setting bed, with sand joints, and supported by an adequate base Application PS for general use Application PX for use where dimensional tolerances, warpage, and chippage are limited Application PA intended to produce characteristic architectural effects resulting from nonuniformity in size, color, and texture (Extracted, with permission, from ASTM C 1272 Standard Specification for Heavy Vehicular Paving Brick, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428.
The saturation coefficient is the ratio of absorption by 24-hr submersion in cold water to that after 5 hrs submersion in boiling water. The saturation coefficient requirement is waived if the average water absorption is less than 6% after 24-hr submersion in room-temperature water. b (Extracted, with permission, from ASTM C 902 Standard Specification for Pedestrian and Light Traffic Paving Brick, copyright ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken, PA 19428. org). those for pavers set in rigid paving, the physical requirements for Type F pavers are more stringent.